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The sun shone down as we donned our dry suits and zipped up. The sweet on our brows could be easily explained away by the heat of the day as Andrew and I crunched our way across the gravel to the dive site. Only we knew the true reason
THE DIVE.
Full twin set kit on and rig checked we descended rapidly into the murky waters down to planed dive depth. Immediately Andrew signalled me that there was a problem. Our pre arranged hand signals worked well and I understood fully his needs. I carefully considered the risk to my personal safety then I made my decision.
I stood up, grabbed the additional 2kg off of the jetty and handed it to Andrew and then descended again to planned dive depth 2m.
2kg was not enough so again without thought this time to my personal well being I surfaced and grabbed an additional 1kg off the jetty.
It worked. Andrew was now hovering just off the bottom in the cruel depths of Wraysbury lake.
We surfaced and I begged Andrew to let me go home now but he was having no wimping out on this dive. He insisted on a full 18mins bottom time at 8m in 0.5m viz and despite my trepidation I followed the white glow of his twin set into the gloom. I was to be rewarded for my bravery by spotting a large plastic box full of broken bricks and a pike with myopic eyes that was probably dead but neither Andrew or I had the courage to prod it as it was rather large.
We left that dive site older, wiser and better divers. We now know that an additional 3kg is required for the 3mm O3 compressed neoprene dry suit.
Before we left the man who ran the dive site gave me a cert card allowing me re-admittance for a small fee in the future. But as I drove away I knew in my heart that I would not have what it takes to ever dive that site again.
It was crap
ATB
Mark Chase
The sun shone down as we donned our dry suits and zipped up. The sweet on our brows could be easily explained away by the heat of the day as Andrew and I crunched our way across the gravel to the dive site. Only we knew the true reason
THE DIVE.
Full twin set kit on and rig checked we descended rapidly into the murky waters down to planed dive depth. Immediately Andrew signalled me that there was a problem. Our pre arranged hand signals worked well and I understood fully his needs. I carefully considered the risk to my personal safety then I made my decision.
I stood up, grabbed the additional 2kg off of the jetty and handed it to Andrew and then descended again to planned dive depth 2m.
2kg was not enough so again without thought this time to my personal well being I surfaced and grabbed an additional 1kg off the jetty.
It worked. Andrew was now hovering just off the bottom in the cruel depths of Wraysbury lake.
We surfaced and I begged Andrew to let me go home now but he was having no wimping out on this dive. He insisted on a full 18mins bottom time at 8m in 0.5m viz and despite my trepidation I followed the white glow of his twin set into the gloom. I was to be rewarded for my bravery by spotting a large plastic box full of broken bricks and a pike with myopic eyes that was probably dead but neither Andrew or I had the courage to prod it as it was rather large.
We left that dive site older, wiser and better divers. We now know that an additional 3kg is required for the 3mm O3 compressed neoprene dry suit.
Before we left the man who ran the dive site gave me a cert card allowing me re-admittance for a small fee in the future. But as I drove away I knew in my heart that I would not have what it takes to ever dive that site again.
It was crap

ATB
Mark Chase